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On his blog, Brent notes that NetNewsWire won an Upgradie!
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NetNewsWire 5.0 for iOS: New Public TestFlight (Build 24)
Happy New Year’s Eve!
The second public TestFlight build — build 24, because there were previous non-public builds — is now up.
If you haven’t signed up for testing, see this page for instructions.
Changes in this build:
- Feeds list: context menu now includes Mark All as Read command when an item has any unread articles.
- Timeline: fixed a crashing bug related to not clearing the middle row selection when the timeline is cleared.
- Timeline: fixed crashing bug related to scrolling before the table data source is ready.
- Article view: fixed layout of code in some articles
- Article view: fixed bug where tap on disabled arrow would trigger fullscreen.
- The active-article window is now based on date-arrived (date NetNewsWire first saw an article) instead of date published (as reported in the feed). This should fix some bugs people have reported with missing articles.
- Export subscriptions: fixed a bug where it wouldn’t work if you have only one account.
- Feedly syncing: hopefully fixed a mystery crashing bug.
- Feedly syncing: hopefully fixed the missing-data error.
- Add folder: fixed bug where account name didn’t match selection in picker.
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On his blog, Brent writes up How We Run the NetNewsWire Open Source Project:
I have always loved making apps, but making this app with this team is the most fun I’ve ever had. By far. (And I’ve worked on some pretty great teams.)
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On his blog, Brent writes up the NetNewsWire 2020 Roadmap.
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On his blog, Brent writes up the NetNewsWire 2019 year in review.
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NetNewsWire 5 for iOS Public TestFlight Now Available
If you’d like to help us test NetNewsWire 5 for iOS, please go to the testing page and sign up for the TestFlight beta.
That page has the scoop on what’s in the app, how to send feedback, and so on.
Thanks!
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Here’s NetNewsWire for iPad running in light mode.
Not shown: Feedly syncing. It will be included in NetNewsWire 5.0 for iOS.
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Here’s NetNewsWire in Dark Mode running on an iPad.
There are still things to tweak, but it’s pretty close to the shipping version.
Best part: keyboard shortcuts! You can fly through stuff just like in the Mac app.
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We just published the NetNewsWire help book for the iOS app.
Feedback is welcome, of course. We have a Slack group, which is the best place for feedback, but feedback via other means is okay too.
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On his blog, Brent writes about current NetNewsWire status and our progress toward shipping the iOS app.
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NetNewsWire will be free on Black Friday!
Well, like every day, but still. Free! It‘s a good deal. 🐯
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Retro-computing fans — Macintosh Garden has archived old versions of NetNewsWire Lite.
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We just switched the Settings screen to use the new inset grouped table style.
People with good memories will remember that grouped tables were always inset in early versions of iOS — so this is old, in a way, but it’s newly available again.
What do you think?
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NetNewsWire 5.0.3 for Mac Released
Check for updates, or download the latest.
Changes since 5.0.2
Significantly enhanced performance during syncs and refreshes. Fetching articles from the database is also faster.
When running for the first time, and the user previously used NetNewsWire 3, it will automatically import NetNewsWire 3 subscriptions instead of the defaults for new users.
You can also import NetNewsWire 3 subscriptions via the new File > Import NNW3 Subscriptions… command.
Keyboard shortcuts: the ’s’ key toggles starred status. The ‘r’ and ‘u’ keys now both toggle read status (instead of setting read and unread status, respectively).
Articles view: articles where the feed icon is quite large would be slow to render — now they render as fast as other articles.
Articles view: a bug where keyboard shortcuts wouldn’t work after giving the articles view focus has been fixed.
Articles view: YouTube videos could end up small. Fixed.
Articles view: fixed a bug scaling images to fit in the view.
Fixed the space bar when running on Catalina. It wouldn’t advance to the next unread — now it will. (This was due to a change in JavaScript in Catalina.)
Fixed a crashing bug having to do with async database fetches for the timeline.
Feedbin syncing: fixed a bug where renaming a tag on the Feedbin site would result in feeds in NNW ending up at the top level.
Help menu: fixed the expired Slack link.
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NetNewsWire 5.0.3b2: Faster, Imports NNW3 Subscriptions
Check for updates, or download the latest.
Changes
Significantly enhanced performance during syncs and refreshes.
When running for the first time, and the user previously used NetNewsWire 3, it will automatically import NetNewsWire 3 subscriptions instead of the defaults for new users.
You can also import NetNewsWire 3 subscriptions via the new File > Import NNW3 Subscriptions… command.
Fixed the space bar when running on Catalina. It wouldn’t advance to the next unread — now it will. (This was due to a change in JavaScript in Catalina.)
Fixed a crashing bug having to do with async database fetches for the timeline.
Periodically empties the articles cache that was added in 5.0.3b1, so its memory use doesn’t just keep expanding.
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Maurice Parker is working on adding support for shortcuts (including parameterized shortcuts) in NetNewsWire for iOS.
If you have ideas for shortcuts you’d like to see, let us know!
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Note for NetNewsWire 3 users — in NetNewsWire 5.0.3 (new beta coming soon), we’re adding the ability to import NetNewsWire 3 subscriptions.
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In a comment on Michael Tsai’s blog, sbarex writes up a hack to get NetNewsWire 3.3.2 running on Catalina.
Obviously, do things like this at your own risk! We have no idea what side effects there could be.
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NetNewsWire is a-okay on Catalina. All good. Happy updating!
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On his blog, Brent writes up the current NetNewsWire status.
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NetNewsWire 5.0.3b1
Check for updates, or download the latest.
We’re making it faster! And fixing some bugs.
Changes:
Performance enhancement: fetching articles from the database is faster, and sometimes much faster.
Performance enhancement: syncing could block the main thread more than it should. We moved JSON decoding to a background thread, which fixes this. This is particularly noticeable during an initial sync.
Keyboard shortcuts: the ’s’ key toggles starred status. The ‘r’ and ‘u’ keys now both toggle read status (instead of setting read and unread status, respectively).
Articles view: articles where the feed icon is quite large would be slow to render — now they render as fast as other articles.
Articles view: a bug where keyboard shortcuts wouldn’t work after giving the articles view focus has been fixed.
Articles view: YouTube videos could end up small. Fixed.
Articles view: fixed a bug scaling images to fit in the view.
Feedbin syncing: fixed a bug where renaming a tag on the Feedbin site would result in feeds in NNW ending up at the top level.
Help menu: fixed the expired Slack link.
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Some folks have reported that the Slack group link in the Help menu has apparently expired.
We have a new link — use this one instead.
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NetNewsWire 5.0.2
Check for updates, or download the latest.
Changes
The app movement monitor has been updated to handle quarantined apps and translocation.
Normally we wouldn’t have pushed out a new release for a single bug fix, but this one is important — we were getting false positives on app movement, which was affecting some users negatively.
For anyone curious about technical details, here’s the commit.
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NetNewsWire 5.0.1
Check for updates, or download the latest.
Changes since 5.0
Crash fix: when the app is renamed or moved on disk while running, alert the user and quit the app. This prevents crashes that will happen due to renaming/moving. See Daniel Jalkut on App Movement Monitoring for more info.
(Probably) fix a crashing bug having to do with a callback being called more than once, when it was designed to be called just once.
Sidebar: deleting an empty Feedbin folder no longer makes the sidebar non-responsive.
Timeline: update UI more quickly when a feed icon is downloaded.
Timeline: reload the timeline when show-feed-names is toggled. This fixes a bug where switching between a folder and a feed with the exact same list of articles to appear in the timeline would result in display glitches.
Timeline and article pane: make sure the link for an article isn’t an empty string.
Article pane: stop blocking links containing the string “feedburner” — there are legitimate cases where that string appears.
Article pane: handle figures and iframes as we do images, so they fit in the view.
Article pane: fix white flash on first article load while in Dark Mode.
Preferences > General: add checkbox to hide the unread count in the Dock.
Preferences > Accounts: Updated the UI when a Feedbin user with an expired trial creates an account in NetNewsWire.
RSS parser: Detect RDF (RSS 1.0) feeds that lack an XML header.
RSS parser: Parse Atom-style dates that are missing a T character in the middle.
RSS parser: check for bad permalinks more aggressively. If they don’t contain a / character, then do not consider them permalinks.
RSS parser: don’t let author/title overwrite item/title.
About window: add link to NetNewsWire website.
Feedbin syncing: fixed a bug where starred articles could appear as unread.
Microblog Mac app sharing: when it has to launch the app first, it waits a little longer before sending it content, which should fix a bug where sometimes you get no content in that case.
Enable the Open in Browser command only when a single article is selected.
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NetNewsWire 5.0.1b1
Check for updates, or download the latest.
Changes:
Timeline: reload when show-feed-names is toggled. This fixes a bug where switching between a folder and a feed with the exact same list of articles to appear in the timeline would result in display glitches.
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